Show Russians CI im c i I I Discovery Mav I I Be Key to o life Le LeNEW I I I Inow I NEW YORK YORK YORK-Russi YORK Russian Russian n scientists now claim a discovery which they I Isay I say may even help science create life from nonliving matter The purported discovery is in how living cells cells of of plants or animals animals- are formed It has been given of of- official official Soviet blessing However Robert C. C Cook editor of the Journal of Heredity pub pub- published published published by the American genetic as as- association association association says the theory is corn com complete 1 nonsense and a part of a gallop back into the middle ages or before by Soviet party line science Russians Add Link The Russians say yes this happens hap hap- happens happens pens but that they have found something nv naw n v in addition The new ne thing they claim is that some liv liv- living livIng living ing cells come from tiny living particles which are not cells The cells generated by these particles are ar different from ordinary cells and form torm a vital part of the new I plant or anical These particles may be a Ita con con- connecting connecting cont t netting link between living and nonliving nonliving matter claim articles in Soviet newspapers Soviet biology is approaching the solution of the great problem of the processes of qualitative changes in in nature and the transformation of nonliving matter in living This Thic problem can solved he-solved by the Marxist Marx- Marx philosophy pi and used the methods of materialists dialectics the we articles declare Credited to Woman The theory also offers to soviet claims that wheat has been changed into rye by grafting plants together The strange particles supposedly sup sup- supPOsedly figure in bringing this about t out Prof 0 0 O. B. B B is credited Cre with the discovery The Articles say Prof has found lound proof that the tiny mysterious r f ous particles can become cells un- un under under der w the right conditions She is said w to nave have ave photographed tiny grains of white h te matter in the yolk of birds' birds j eggs tracing their development Into cells Prof first pub- pub published fished her findings in 1945 1915 But in leading Soviet scientists who believed in fn cell division tried to suppress her views the article said The me articles do not say what happened to these men but says they tim ey held d leading posts at the tha thae time ne e and an were the leaders of Histologists Histologists' scientific society u The e articles bitterly attacked American imperialism and one hailed baited Stalin Stal n as the great cory cory- chorus leader or fr science science |